Another New Start, or, Goodbye to the Peacocks...

I write this in what will be our last week at the BSU Archive office at Corsham Court

We are moving!

Since beginning the development of the archive in January 2011, we have occupied the boot of a car or two, a garage, a walk-in cupboard and our current premises in the Stable block at Corsham Court. Although we've had a roving brief,

Bobby and I have always hankered after premises at Newton Park, and have eyed the ground floor room in the Castle jealously. 

This is because, when the teacher training College was founded in the late 1940s, the Castle building housed the first reference library. In fact the shelves are still there.

And next week, we move into the Castle! It's very exciting.

Sadly we cannot take a peacock or two with us. Personally I'll miss these extraordinary and wildly flamboyant birds. Their mating rituals are bizarre and highly entertaining and their behaviour has become part of our landscape. Their calls and screeches have been recorded in the background of recent oral history interviews though, so in a way, we are taking them with us...